I don't have an image that I'm trying to like portray. I'm just being me.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.